Re: [lojban] [update] le virnu smani blozeile'a

[Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>   Marvelous story!  And I discovered something every 3-5 year old knows.
> It's much easier to understand things in a language you are just learning to
> read if there are pictures to guide you!

I must admit that I selfishly started under the assumption that a
children book would have been easier to translate but I really hope
that the result will be useful for newcomers that might start testing
their lojban reading something simpler and then moving to more complex
texts.

>   I respectfully disagree with pir about "jinku", though.  I think the gismu
> is broad enough to include supplements, as well.

It seems that we ended up on the fu'ivla "braxiura" for now.

>   I have one quibble with the story, though.  I looked at "i ca'o le
> je'erse'a ku ganai do mutce danre jgari le rokci gi'e kancu fi li ci gi do
> muvdu ba'o lenu je'erse'a"  And thought, "If you squeeze the rock very
> tightly (btw, I'd probably use jdari rather than danre, but that's just me)
> during the shot, and count to three, then after the shot you will move"?
> Huh? Rather than ba'o, I'd say perhaps "lo balvi be" (you will move to the
> thing in the future of the shot event)

I'm not sure how they differ. I understood that "ba'o" is "in the
aftermath of ...". I tried to render "... you will be moved after the
shot".


>  (Also I should like to point out the use of "da'i" for use in "if...then"
> hypotheticals+results, rather than "ganai...gi", which refers to the

Logical connectives are something I did not quite get yet....

I plan to revisit the translation once I will be more proficient in
Lojban and will try to incorporate your suggestions too.

Thanks,
               Remo

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